Technical Analysis A–Z

Trend indicators

• ADX and Directional Movement (DMI)
  Measures whether a market is trending and which way, with +DI, -DI and ADX.
• MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence)
  The gap between a fast and a slow moving average, with a signal line and histogram.
• Moving Averages (SMA and EMA)
  The basic trend tool: simple and exponential averages, crossovers and the golden cross.

Momentum oscillators

• Relative Strength Index (RSI)
  Wilder's momentum oscillator from 0 to 100, with the classic 70/30 overbought and oversold levels.
• Stochastic Oscillator
  Where the close sits within the recent range, from 0 to 100, with %K and %D lines.

Volatility and bands

• Average True Range (ATR)
  How much a stock typically moves in a bar; the standard tool for volatility-based stops and position sizing.
• Bollinger Bands
  A moving average with volatility bands that widen and narrow with the market; known for the squeeze.

Volume and money flow

• On Balance Volume (OBV)
  A running total of up-day and down-day volume that often moves before price.

Patterns and price levels

• Candlestick Patterns
  How to read candles and the most common single, double and triple candle patterns.
• Fibonacci Retracements
  Levels at fixed percentages of a move, watched as support in pullbacks and resistance in bounces.

Classic reference: Technical Analysis from A to Z

More topics from Steven B. Achelis’s classic reference, published on MarketInOut with permission. We are rewriting them one by one; each moves into the sections above when its new page is ready.

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Terminology
• To Learn More
• Introduction
• Introduction to Technical Analysis
• Price Fields
• Charts
• Support Resistance
• Trends
• Indicators
• Market Indicators
• Line Studies
• Periodicity
• The Time Element
• Conclusion
• Absolute Breadth Index
• Accumulation/Distribution
• Accumulation Swing Index
• Advance/Decline Line
• Advance/Decline Ratio
• Advancing-Declining Issues
• Advancing, Declining, Unchanged Volume
• Andrews' Pitchfork
• Arms Index
• Breadth Thrust
• Bull/Bear Ratio
• CANSLIM
• Chaikin Oscillator
• Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
• Commodity Selection Index (CSI)
• Correlation Analysis
• Cumulative Volume Index (CVI)
• Cycles
• Demand Index
• Detrended Price Oscillator
• Dow Theory
• Ease of Movement
• Efficient Market Theory
• Elliott Wave Theory
• Envelopes (Trading Bands)
• Equivolume
• Four Percent Model
• Fourier Transform
• Fundamental Analysis
• Gann Angles
• Herrick Payoff Index
• Interest Rates
• Kagi
• Large Block Ratio
• Linear Regression Lines
• Mass Index
• McClellan Oscillator
• McClellan Summation Index
• Median Price
• Member Short Ratio
• Momentum
• Money Flow Index
• Negative Volume Index (NVI)
• New Highs-Lows Cumulative
• New Highs-New Lows
• New Highs/Lows Ratio
• Odd Lot Balance Index
• Odd Lot Purchases/Sales
• Odd Lot Short Ratio
• Open Interest
• Open-10 TRIN
• Option Analysis
• Overbought/Oversold
• Parabolic SAR
• Chart Patterns
• Percent Retracement
• Performance
• Point & Figure (PnF Charts)
• Positive Volume Index (PVI)
• Price and Volume Trend
• Price Oscillator
• Price Rate-of-Change (PROC)
• Public Short Ratio
• Puts/Calls Ratio
• Quadrant Lines
• Relative Strength, Comparative
• Renko
• Speed Resistance Lines
• Spreads
• Standard Deviation
• STIX
• Swing Index
• Three Line Break
• Time Series Forecast
• Tirone Levels
• Total Short Ratio
• Trade Volume Index (TVI)
• Trendlines
• TRIX
• Typical Price
• Ultimate Oscillator
• Upside/Downside Ratio
• Upside-Downside Volume
• Vertical Horizontal Filter
• Volatility, Chaikin's
• Volume
• Volume Oscillator
• Volume Rate-of-Change
• Weighted Close
• Williams' Accumulation/Distribution
• Williams' %R
• Zig Zag
• Turn Price
• Percent of Resistance
• Bibliography
• About Steven B. Achelis